Scott Noble's wide-ranging and fine documentary film of 2010. It's about the many attempts--some fairly successful--to reduce human beings to mere "cogs in the machine"--in order to further increase the wealth and power of the elite.
This week's installment begins with public schools. Schools were never designed to educate children--still less to empower them--but to turn them into obedient, docile workers. So argue both John Taylor Gatto and Alfie Kohn.
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The film then explores how "the System" causes violence among the oppressed--and how that violence helps cement the elites rule.
Brief introduction by KD.
The film was adapted to radio by Robin Upton, of "Unwelcome Guests" (unwelcomeguests.net). Many thanks to Robin.
"Human Resources" and other films by Scott Noble are available without charge at www.metanoia-films.org
"New World Notes" is produced under the auspices (Latin for "Executive Dining Room") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
You can download this installment of New World Notes--in MP3 and other formats--also from The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). The page with the download links is here: https://archive.org/download/NewWorldNotes555-HumanResourcesPart2
Previously broadcast, as NWN #555, in October 2018.
New World Notes's Web site has information, photos, interesting links, and a free archive of past shows. http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com . Also, radio4all.net has each show from May 2008.
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